ruchowdh.bsky.social @ruchowdh Twitter profile

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On the heels of Open AIs letter in safety - we need a global governance body for generative AI systems. Here’s my thoughts on how we can build one.

AI Desperately Needs Global Oversight

As ChatGPT and its ilk continue to spread, countries need an independent board to hold AI companies accountable and limit harms.

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1 year

Has it already started? Happy layoff eve!

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4 years

Narrator: AI can do no such thing.

New Scientist

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5 years

Predicting the future is now possible with powerful new AI simulations that can model every conceivable social interaction

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1 year

If anyone still at Twitter is going to this stupid “code review” by El Musko I will pay you cash money to walk in there with a document in binary and present in earnest about the hardcoreness of your code.

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My op ed about the last days of Twitter is out. It was sad to reflect on all that could have been. I write this piece not just as a commemoration but as a warning - we need better systems of tech oversight

I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside

This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight.

www.theatlantic.com

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@ruchowdh

1 year

What a bittersweet phrase - not because I’m gone, but because it’s gone. #lovewhereyouworked

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@ruchowdh

3 years

Big news! - I’m thrilled to be joining the @TwitterEng team today as Director of ML Ethics, Transparency & Accountability. With the META team, we’ll work to improve ML transparency, inclusivity and accountability. 1/

Ariadna Font Llitjós

@quicola

3 years

I’m excited to announce that @ruchowdh is joining us to help drive our work towards algorithmic transparency and accountability. She brings incredible expertise in AI and ethics and will help us minimize bias in our systems. We’re lucky to have her! 🧵

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By me and @gleemie on tech’s quiet colonization of the social sciences: “The beautiful messiness of humanity cannot be quantified into data columns, programmed, scaled, and engineered.”

To Really 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers

Opinion: Silicon Valley culture often reveals the optimism of organized ignorance. Rather than lauding "new" experts, we need to respect, sustain, and strengthen the ones we already have.

www.wired.com

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1 year

Imagine feeling relief that you’re the one on the receiving end of the thanos snap 🫰

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2 years

@veenadubal What’s extra annoying is that if he were French, Irish, British, or Australian they would magically have NO ISSUES no matter how thick the accent

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2 years

New plan everyone - we slip Elon a few USB sticks and tell him it’s Twitter. He won’t know the difference. 🤫

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1 year

I keep thinking about last night. It was the most humanity-affirming moment that as each tweep was fired, we all posted a 🫡. Then we laughed and rejoiced in the decency and kindness of friends. What a sendoff, Twitter.

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5 years

So, like most tech, the user need was “dudes being creepy” got it.

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5 years

in honour of hustlers i'd like to let everyone know that jennifer lopez literally invented google images

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@ruchowdh

3 years

Friends, I am tired. I work hard to build good things and bring in the right people. Parity is no different. For the second time in two weeks, I have to fight a major media outlet for basic recognition of my work. The gaslighting is real. The erasure is real. 1/

Liz O’Sullivan

@lizjosullivan

3 years

To set the record straight: Parity 2.0 wouldn't exist without @ruchowdh . In between Accenture and Twitter, Rumman worked tirelessly on Parity for a year. She got customers, proved the model, validated the need, and invented a new way to identify bias in AI beyond "just data". 1/2

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5 years

My memory of 9/12 was my dad rushing out to buy American flag stickers for our car windows and home so we wouldn’t be targeted.

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Every year someone posts this and it bothers me. This is a very white version of events. This isn't what 9/12 was like for any kid who looked remotely Muslim or had a "strange" name.

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1 year

On a positive note - happy to announce that I’m joining @BKCHarvard to continue work on Responsible AI - in particular focusing on governance.

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

@BKCHarvard

1 year

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rumman Chowdhury ( @ruchowdh ) has joined the annual @BKCHarvard fellowship cohort, working to strengthen and expand on the Center’s work on responsible AI.

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1 year

@JortsTheCat OMG JORTS I LOVE YOU!!!! And Texas 😞

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2 years

I picked an amazing first day to go into twitter hq

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3 years

You cannot fire @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai and pretend it never happened. Google has not yet proven itself a place that cultivates and respects talent from marginalized groups.

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5 years

No, MIT. No.

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@ruchowdh

4 years

My first job in data science was working for a company where I had access to shopper loyalty card and purchase data. I could answer 3/4 of those questions with certainty, could figure out the aisle path based on cart if I made some assumptions.

Elon Green

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4 years

My god.

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2 years

Elon aside, can anyone explain to me how Twitter will hire/keep employees since there isn’t company stock to create competitive comp packages? A significant part of our pay is in RSUs.

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3 years

FR to enforce lunch payment. 1) Consent…from children? 2) “Reducing transaction cost” isn’t how we should talk about schools and most importantly (as @TrialByTruth states) 3) for the cost of this program, these kids could have been fed for free.

Facial recognition cameras arrive in UK school canteens

Advocates say they speed up queues, but privacy campaigners query whether they are necessary

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1 year

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5 years

I tweeted about @SkylarkLabs over a year ago - this technology shouldn’t be used on principle AND because it’s technologically unsound. (1) constant surveillance doesn’t make a safer world, it creates a fear-driven surveillance state that erodes social capital 1/

Seeker by The Verge

@Seeker

5 years

Can violence-detecting drones make public spaces safer?

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5 years

Who are your go-to scholars on feminism and technology, particularly those with cross-cultural and non-western perspectives?

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@ruchowdh

3 years

It's been hard to keep quiet on this ... excited to announce Twitter META will be hosting the first *ever* algorithmic bias bounty competition @aivillage_dc @defcon . Details of the challenge coming later this week. In the meantime...

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4 years

This is....oddly the best way to explain inherent biases and why status quo “accuracy” is a trash metric.

Ben Bartlett

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4 years

parent: if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too? machine learning model: yes

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3 years

I promised we'd share our homework on our image cropping decisions - here it is. We did a bias analysis of our saliency algorithm - read about what we found, dig into our code, and join us for a spaces event this afternoon.

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@XEng

3 years

In our latest blog post, we’re sharing the findings from our image cropping algorithm analysis and exploring ways to create a more equitable experience on Twitter.

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In their rush to cancel Timnit, Google did a strategically poor move in the ongoing geopolitical poker game that is AI regulation - they lost all plausible deniability to regulators.

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1 year

I’ve been waiting for my notifications to die down a bit before posting again because virality is overwhelming. Thank you all for the outpouring of support and positivity to Twitter’s former ML ethics team. I’ll have more to say later - esp after Jan 4 😉

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3 years

Actual code snippet: ORDER BY salary DESC;

Dan Diamond

@ddiamond

3 years

Facing angry doctors, Stanford official tries to explain why vaccine went to others instead. The algorithm “clearly didn’t work,” he says, as doctors boo + accuse him of lying. “Algorithms suck!” shouts one protester. “Fuck the algorithm,” says another. (video via tipster)

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No one: Literally no one: Negroponte: “I’m a rich white man who knows 80% of the billionaires in the US on a first name basis and would absolutely endorse sex trafficking fOr ScIeNcE”

MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified

At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.

www.technologyreview.com

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1 year

I kinda hate that responsible AI has come full circle to the uneducated yet highly opinionated pontificating on topics they know nothing about, including terminator, governance & geopolitical anything. Just because you can make AI doesn’t mean you know anything about implications

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@CaseyNewton Idk why ppl think this isn’t true it absolutely fucking is

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3 years

The latest from META — an analysis of algorithmic amplification of tweets from elected officials in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, & US. The team: @fhuszar , @s0f1ra , Conor O’Brien, @__lucab , @sagemintblue @mrtz . 1/n

Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter

As we shared earlier this year, we believe it’s critical to study the effects of machine learning (ML) on the public conversation and share our findings publicly.

blog.twitter.com

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@ruchowdh

4 years

Wtf was this trained on, the Seven Dwarves? Does anyone walk like that when they’re happy?

WIRED

@WIRED

4 years

Being able to read body language is an essential human skill. Soon, it might be one for robots, too. Researchers have developed an algorithm that analyzes and guesses how you’re feeling purely by the way you walk:

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4 years

Since today’s topic is how Twitter crops pics, flashback to this article I was in and um, some strange photo crops.

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@ruchowdh

2 years

Slowly making the migration to @joinmastodon Find me under the same handle

Rumman Chowdhury (@[email protected])

316 Posts, 227 Following, 6.53K Followers · Responsible AI. Anti Elon Social Club.

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3 years

I will not entertain a conversation where I have to convince someone that my work deserves credit. This is not a matter of opinion, this is a matter of facts. I will also not entertain another conversation where I prove my worth to someone AS THEY SHOWCASE MY WORK. 4/

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5 years

Well intentioned but not the answer. It is an unrealistic ask of one woman to singlehandedly shift ingrained institutional culture. It’s also a common business practice that is destined to fail. Don’t glass cliff us.

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5 years

NO. Privacy is already for the privileged. This will create a further divide and low income individuals sell their data to make ends meet.

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5 years

Your data is not just valuable — it’s the new oil. Jaron Lanier explains why you should be getting paid for it.

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3 years

Literal technical solutionism - people are depressed with more meetings and isolation so we will institute surveillance tech to PUNISH them

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3 years

Research has shown that meetings correlate with a decline in workplace happiness, productivity, and even company market share. Can tech, like automated scheduling tools and facial recognition that measures who’s paying attention, make them better?

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The sheer number of messages in my DMs and inbox asking me to connect folks with @timnitGebru so they can hire her is hilarious and heartening. We’re not just here for moral support and retweets, people are putting cash money 🤑 behind this.

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What if we, as a field, collectively refused to allow a hero narrative? What if every time a reporter wants to write a story about us, we make sure that we emphasize that there have been many of us working for years and learning from others? 1/

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. @timnitGebru is not only a pillar of our community, she’s the reason many next generation engineers, data scientists and more are inspired to work in tech. It’s now our job to support her.

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If you’re watching that Tesla “self driving” fail video and wondering if the company or it’s founder will be liable if there’s an accident, it’s likely they won’t. The driver will, based on this precedent.

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Oh you mean the one we removed because of demonstrated bias? That cropping algo?

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Twitter has brought back cropped image previews after introducing the full-frame update in May 2021.

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5 years

“Now that it’s starting to hit people’s pockets in Silicon Valley, suddenly there’s this movement for human-centric AI. I do genuinely worry about the erasure of all the women and women of color who have built this industry.”

Stanford’s new AI institute is inadvertently showcasing one of tech’s biggest problems

"I do genuinely worry about the erasure of all the women and women of color who have built this industry."

qz.com

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Most kids already think school is prison. Apparently now we are going to read brain waves and *shock* then to attention. 🤦‍♀️ Maybe the students aren’t the problem. Maybe a panoptic, outdated, education system is.

Ben Williamson

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5 years

Check out these cool brain-reading AttentivU glasses from MIT Media Lab - this is what they think students should wear when "viewing online lectures as well as listening to classroom lectures" to physically "nudge" them to pay attention

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2 years

Living the plot of succession is fucking exhausting

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2 years

New from the Twitter META team: we’re partnering with @openminedorg , a nonprofit pioneering applications of privacy-enhancing tech (PETs) and privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML), to help us be more transparent & accountable.

Investing in privacy enhancing tech to advance transparency in ML

We’re investing in privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) to pioneer new methods of public accountability and access to data in a manner that respects and protects the privacy of people on Twitter.

blog.twitter.com

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1 year

I’m sorry did you just name your library culito?

NVIDIA HPC Developer

@NVIDIAHPCDev

1 year

Introducing NVIDIA cuLitho, a new software library that brings accelerated computing to computational #lithography , delivering a 40X performance leap while running on #GPUs . #GTC23

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I’m so glad joan shared this because it needs to be out in the world ❤️

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Watch Bing chat go slowly unhinged - @acidflask and I were messing around with it and asked it questions about me. First response. Already factually incorrect currently but sort of true… but wait what’s that on the lower right?1/

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3 years

In tomorrow’s Ai-surveilled world drag queens are the ultimate spies

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“80 to 90 per cent of the predictive assessment was based on the algorithms’ analysis of candidates’ use of language and verbal skills.” By design, excluding non-native language speakers. Disturbing given the current nationalistic wave in the UK.

AI used for first time in job interviews in UK to find best applicants

Artificial intelligence (AI) and facial expression technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates.

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@ruchowdh

5 years

I left my PhD program early to get a job as a data scientist. People said that no one finishes a dissertation while working full time. They also said that people leave academia for industry because they can’t hack it. Those people email me for jobs now.

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Name a time you proved someone wrong who doubted you. Be as petty as you like.

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When are we getting past the assumption that the people who made the tech are the best people to solve the problems they make? It’s like saying Exxon is the best answer for climate change

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Wow it really took this blubbering infant a month before he imploded. So much for free speech, but we already knew this.

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3 years

It’s almost as if...code is a tool that (hear me out) can be utilized as a supplement to subject matter expertise. And to correct the tweet below ,all fields won’t be a subset of CS, the tool will be absorbed as one of many options for investigation or production.

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Within 10-20 years, nearly every branch of science will be, for all intents and purposes, a branch of computer science. Computational physics, comp chemistry, comp biology, comp medicine... Even comp archeology. Realistic simulations, big data analysis, and ML everywhere

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@rajiinio Thanks for the mention, Deb! To clarify- the amplification was of tweets by politicians, not nec political content by all users. Still salient and important to the current conversation but also worth note that the underlying reason is unclear 1/

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This is how people get erased. The history of Parity, as codified by the NYT, is that someone else started it. I'm a footnote that barely existed. This is what VCs will see. This is what potential clients will see. This is what the amazing future press will talk about 5/

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You’re still on mute

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Many nuggets of insights into this GPT 4 paper but this is one of the most compelling - across the board GPT performs poorly at AP English - it’s incapable of abstract creativity. Same with complex leetcode which is ultimately an abstraction codified. Humans aren’t replaceable

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Wait until someone tells them how averaging works.

Uber will now deactivate riders with below average ratings

The tables have turned.

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It’s beautiful that this work came out as Twitter implodes. This was the last thing I worked on as Parity CEO before making the move. Congratulations on a phenomenal project.

Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies

@centerforcrds

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Proud to announce: "A People’s Guide to Finding Algorithmic Discrimination." Funded by @DemocracyFund this practical guide to understanding this topic was led by CR+DS affiliates @merbroussard @kingavriel in partnership with @ruchowdh & @ParityAI

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They lied. They knew and hid Epstein’s involvement. I am at a loss for words to express my feeling of betrayal.

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Elon’s mdau chart should have a special line for all the people who are just here to watch the site collapse slowly

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Because your minds aren't sufficiently blown by Kristian joining us - also announcing that @ubiquity75 is going to be with us for a few months to specifically work on topics of algorithmic choice.

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3 years

Responsible ML isn't a team, it's a company-wide imperative. With META as the driver, we're excited to share our new RML initiative. 1/5

Engineering

@XEng

3 years

Today we’re introducing the Responsible ML initiative, our effort to understand the use and impact of machine learning at Twitter, and take action when needed. We’ve been working on this for a while. Here’s how we see the path forward:

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I know I’m funny but how does one get 20 views and 62 likes?

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I’m getting offers to pitch into this fund, does this mean I have a startup

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You talk about second breakfast, but have you tried second sleep

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Elon jibes aside (and they are hilarious) it’s amazing how people like him don’t know what it’s like on a daily basis as a minority on this platform. Your feelings hurt lil buddy? We don’t get jokes, we get death threats and rape threats.

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Until we have adequate protection against our data being collected and sold by private companies, don’t do this. HIPAA does not protect you here. This information *will* be sold to make spurious assessments about your insurability, your job prospects, and more.

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Very important. Wearables may be providing digital early warning signals. We might massively scale up and distribute one to every American. The opportunity cost of lockdown is so massive (billions per day) that almost any technological investment in reducing it can be justified.

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I guess now that it’s out of fashion to say ”AI can predict trustworthiness” the moving goal narrative is now “AI can predict impressions of X” - you mean PREJUDICES my friend, I’d respect you more if you used the word instead of hiding behind overly intellectualized speech

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Wow speculative garbage mixed with unverifiable contextless “screenshots” presented by a complete hack so fucking compelling I’m totally redpilled now

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3 years

The City of New York has released an inventory of algorithms in use. On this list are the infamous NYPD facial recognition tech, Shotspotter, and Patternizr. I'd love to audit some of these other models, especially the ones for Children's Services.

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2 years

Is it only my observation or is everyone absolutely losing it in 2022?

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3 years

When I joined Twitter a few months ago, I was really excited about doing applied research. One of our goals for META is to find researchers who want to drive change. I’m super excited to welcome @kldivergence as a Senior Staff Researcher at META. 1/

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Both Liz and I interviewed with @CadeMetz for this piece. He is well aware that (1) I was the CEO of Parity and incorporated it, and (2) I didn't just 'build a tool' and move from a (nameless) role at Accenture to a (nameless) role at Twitter. 2/

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Raise your hand if you don’t have a “traditional” background for your career or job but it’s also a reason you’re well-suited for it 🙋‍♀️

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

JUST IN: Leaders of UNC-Chapel Hill say Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure was revoked because she did not come from a “traditional academic-type background”

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3 years

Let me know how that works out for you

Matthew Keys

@MatthewKeysLive

3 years

Parler CEO says social media service will use algorithms to tackle problematic content when it comes back online.

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@ruchowdh

1 year

Wow sucks to have laid off the research teams then

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science

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@ruchowdh

3 years

no, dont do this

TheWrap

@TheWrap

3 years

The upcoming #AnthonyBourdain documentary uses AI to recreate the late chef's voice. Now, people are slamming both the ethics and eeriness of that decision

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@ruchowdh

4 years

Dutch court rules that an algorithm used by the government to identify welfare fraud violates human rights. "“digital welfare states” ... amount to spying on the poor, breaching privacy and human rights norms and unfairly penalising the most vulnerable."

Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules

Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners

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@ruchowdh

2 years

A phenomenal piece by @mona_sloane in @Nature

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@ruchowdh

3 years

What's your go-to document or paper that defines different types of algorithmic bias?

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@ruchowdh

2 years

Apparently I am a little green frog

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@ruchowdh

3 years

Or, do I draw a line in the sand and refuse to acknolwedge the gate keepers of the major media outlets who seem to think that my work is good enough, but my name and my face aren't? Knowing full well that by doing so, I become yet another person whose work is erased over time 8/

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@ruchowdh

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@leafjooce You still should!! I see our firing as affirmation that we are a danger :) there are so many phenomenal places to work.

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@ruchowdh

2 years

If you’re a manager at Twitter, now’s the time to reflect on your values as an individual and determine who it is you’re here for.

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@ruchowdh

1 year

Between crypto and Elon We all deserve Monday off to just lay in bed and make fun of these people on Twitter

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@ruchowdh

5 years

So this @HumaneTech_ event just got offensive (and grammatically incorrect). @tristanharris just said “a population the size of Islam” is being radicalized by social media videos. Twice. Thanks for tagging your own biases and ignorance.

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@ruchowdh

5 years

Tbh when I first moved to the bay I was perplexed as to why people thought coding was the hard part of data science. It’s not. It’s the social science part of data science that stumps people: operationalizing concepts, deciphering variable interdependence, understanding impact.

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@ruchowdh

2 years

Some people mistake kindness for weakness, when in reality most kind people are so much stronger than people who are petty and mean.

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@ruchowdh

2 years

I’ll take it as a compliment that I gave a talk yesterday and the person who held the discussion immediately applied to both open roles on my team after 💅

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@ruchowdh

5 years

Reposting with real talk. Underpinning all this is the worship of “hard” sciences above all. You know what? Design is hard. Social sciences are hard. Related is that these are considered feminine fields and they become “validated” as the masculine fields move in.

WIRED

@WIRED

5 years

Stitch Fix is using something called eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics, to tease apart the overlapping “notes” in an individual’s style. Using physics, the team can better understand the complexities of the clients’ style minds.

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